Our four picks for art exhibits
“News From Nowhere: Chicago Laboratory”
Art by and about African-American men
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Though there’ll be objects on display too, including films, photographs, architectural plans, and fashion sketches. None offer concrete solutions. But the artists, says Jacob, are hoping for something better: “This beautiful, whacked-out, imaginative presence could plant an idea in someone’s mind or introduce a way of thinking. I hope someone seeing this will be moved by what they saw, not just emotionally or intellectually, but in ways we can act upon.” —Aimee Levitt
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Marisol is still alive and living in Paris. The MCA happens to own a lot of her work because many of its founding collectors were fans. But Warren’s not sure why Marisol never became the juggernaut Warhol did. “If any of us could figure out what goes in and out of fashion,” she says, “we’d have a clue to the universe.” —Aimee Levitt
9/29-1/12, Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell, hydeparkart.org. Free
